Local adaptation of timing of reproduction: Females are in the driver's seat

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 172-179

  Caro, Samuel P ^a,d   Charmantier, Anne ^b   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^b   Blondel, Jacques ^b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Williams, Tony D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gonadal development; Heritability; Local adaptation; Parus; Parus caeruleus; Timing of breeding; Yolk precursors

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BREEDING SEASON; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTION;

CYANISTES CAERULEUS; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS;

EID: 58349105777     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01486.x     Document Type: Article

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